“Gillian Allnutt”. The Royal Literary Fund: Former Fellows.
Royal Literary Fund
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Reception | Gillian Allnutt | |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Bannerman | These bereavements also deprived her of the means of support. (Her mother had had a life annuity; no pension was forthcoming on the death of her brother.) Her friends attempted to find her patrons or... |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Bellerby | FB
's poverty (which had made Charles Causley
and others urge her to apply for help to the Royal Literary Fund
) was alleviated by a small pension from the Civil List
for services to literature. Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press. 39 |
Reception | Phyllis Bentley | She was proud to be the second woman ever elected to the committee of the Royal Literary Fund
. Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz. 258-9 |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Bentley | The Royal Literary Fund
paid EB
fifteen guineas (very generous according to its usually class-based scale of awards). Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Matilda Betham | She applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Some time after printing her Vignettes: in VerseMMB
was planning a book to be called Crow-Quill Flights. A certain incoherence of style in the preface (which is all that survives) suggests that it... |
Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Bristow | AB
first applied for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in the second year after her wedding, and received the relatively generous payment of ten pounds. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Bristow | AB
again applied to the Royal Literary Fund
and received twenty pounds, as she had done two years previously; this is her last known application. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Publishing | Amelia Bristow | She included a dedication to her 152 subscribers. It reached a second edition the same year, and a fourth, as Elizabeth Allen; or, The Faithful Servant in 1832. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 572 |
Publishing | Amelia Bristow | Her title continues, being an Outline of the Religious and Domestic Habits of this most Interesting Nation, with explananatory notes. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 621 |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | Despite an annual Civil List
pension of a hundred pounds, and payments totalling £120 from the Royal Literary Fund
over the past seven years, FB
declared bankruptcy. McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Star of Attéghéi</span>”;. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41 , No. 3, West Virginia University Press, pp. 295-18. 298, 315n11 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Browne | She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
, the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment... |
Reception | Frances Browne | Browne's applications to the Royal Literary Fund
survive in the Fund's archive (available on microfilm), and the National Library of Ireland
has two letters she wrote in 1844. The National Library of Scotland
holds several... |
Timeline
1790: The Royal Literary Fund was established in...
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1790
The Royal Literary Fund
was established in London by David Williamsto relieve literary men of all nations; it made many small grants to women writers.
1984: The Authors' Foundation was set up to make...
Writing climate item
1984
The Authors' Foundation
was set up to make awards to writers: it marked the centenary of the Society of Authors
and had help from the Royal Literary Fund
; it had Antonia Fraser
and Michael Holroyd
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